Script writing and content generation tools and improved operation of same

A method of operation of a computational system that implements at least one artificial neural network to perform pre-production operations including script breakdown, the method comprising:

• receiving at least one of a sample script or a portion of a sample script by the computational system, the at least one artificial neural network trained on a corpus of one or more annotated scripts or portions of annotated scripts, the received script or portion of the script including a plurality of scenes, a number of characters who appear in one or more of the scenes, and dialog that occurs during the scenes;
• processing the at least one of the sample script or the portion of the sample script via the at least one artificial neural network trained at least on the corpus of the at least one of annotated scripts or annotated portions of scripts to identify each of a plurality of script elements of two or more different categories or elements, the categories of script elements including at least:
• i) scenes, ii) characters that appear in one or more scenes, iii) mise en scène elements, iv) character interactions, and v) dialog for each of the characters;
• and
• generating a script breakdown that represents at least:
• i) the scenes, ii) any of one or more main characters that appear in each of the scenes, and iv) interactions between the scenes and the any of one or more main characters that appear in each of the scenes.